Rich

5. Can’t call it.

6, but I’m happy enough in the circumstances despite a disappointing ending. It should just about be enough, but it’s going to be tight.

It would be dead surprising if we did anything now like.

If it is Chelsea for Dembele, reckon they'll let us have Pulisic on loan?

We are an English club.

Not at all, have at it! @54 Would love a Transferometer and was going to make one after the closure, but fine to start one now!

Parody.

Haha, aye I enjoyed that. Proper earnest. His voice was shaking at points, he can't believe his luck

Nobody is saying that it isn't a valid concern, just flagging up the constant glass-half-empty eyes people view things through.

Absolute parody.

I do have a history of talking shite, like. You've got me bang to rights.

Not worthy of abuse, nah, but a bit of grief/poking? Sure. For a solid example, you were moaning about Burn earlier because you thought he was a left-back. That, to me, is just moaning for the sake of moaning, as it's coming from a place of ignorance and a lack of knowledge. Takes a minute to go and look to see where he's played on Transfermarkt, which might have led to you thinking "ah well, that's alright then", rather than posting yet more guff.

There are just some, like you and gdm, who take any opportunity to jump on the negative news and provide an utterly banal analysis of it like "oh that's worrying", "we should have done X', "I said we'd regret this", etc. If you're just a pair of miserable fuckers, that's fair enough, but I don't think I'm incorrect here in saying you're not "unnecessarily negative".

Alright, so I came into the window hoping we'd get a RB, CB(R), CB(L), LB, CM, and ST, based on the media reports and where I felt our main weaknesses were. I still thought we might be able to achieve that today, but it is looking unlikely with six-and-a-half hours left to go. We do look like we've done RB, CB(L), LB, CM, and ST, but we've gone from the potential high of Trippier, Botman, Digne, Guimarães, and someone like Nuñez/Zapata to Trippier, Burn, Targett, Guimarães, and Wood. (Carlos obviously didn't happen.) To get our apparent first choices at RB and CM is fucking class, but it's a shame we managed to only do third/fourth/fifth choices at CB(L) and LB. I've no idea where Wood was on the list, but I'd imagine similar. IF we get Lingard then that does augment our goalscoring options a fair bit, so it doesn't make the Wood deal look too bad in the context, but if he doesn't come we have fallen a little bit short of the absolute best we could have probably managed to do. Still, for my own personal expectations, we really haven't done too badly at all and we have been incredibly ambitious in our approach. We haven't really been taken for mugs by anyone, we've negotiated hard and known when to walk away, but we've still strengthened the first team significantly, all without a DoF/CEO in place. We're currently looking at: Manquillo > Trippier Schär/Lascelles > Burn Dummett > Targett Willock/Shelvey > Guimarães Gayle > Wood We might be able to add Fraser > Lingard to that list. All-in-all that's a pretty significant upgrade in over half the positions in the team. We'll end the window as top spenders and with the most incomings in the division, unless I'm mistaken, and once the DoF/CEO pieces are added and the infrastructure is built out further on the recruitment side the potential is mind-blowing. I just don't see how anyone can be down in the dumps after this window. A little bit underwhelmed like me, sure, but ~£100M spent and five/six first-teamers brought in by a club that was 19th at the opening of the window? Three or four of them full internationals, at that. We've come a long way in a matter of months and Howe does now have enough to avoid the drop, surely, especially with that win at Leeds banked. It's a fantastic time to support NUFC, so it'd be grand if people could make a bit of effort to look on the bright side more often.

You, and others, get grief for posting constant negativity from a place of very little knowledge, not just for worrying about Wood not being enough. If Lingard or another forward doesn’t come, it can’t be claimed we’ve done good business up top by anyone sensible.

Anyone getting worried yet?

We should’ve just signed two superstars, man. We’re fucking idiots.

I’d rather listen to Merson all day than read another gdm post.

Then said if we got him on loan he'd keep us up

What's the equivalent of a fishing rod, some cans, and a roast chicken in France?

£££££££££

Get both man, Proph. Lingard as the starter wide-right, with Ekitike as the sewpa sub.

Just following the usual routine with French signings.

ASM will look after him.